• DocumentCode
    2259141
  • Title

    GentleCool: Cooling aware proactive workload scheduling in multi-machine systems

  • Author

    Ayoub, Raid ; Sharifi, Shervin ; Rosing, Tajana Simunic

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    8-12 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    295
  • Lastpage
    298
  • Abstract
    In state of the art systems, workload scheduling and server fan speed operate independently leading to cooling inefficiencies. In this work we propose GentleCool, a proactive multi-tier approach for significantly lowering the fan cooling costs without compromising the performance. Our technique manages the fan speed through intelligently allocating the workload across different machines. The experimental results show our approach delivers average cooling energy savings of 72% and improves the mean time between failures (MTBF) of the fans by 2.3?? compared to the state of the art.
  • Keywords
    computer centres; cooling; fans; network servers; scheduling; cooling aware proactive workload scheduling; data centers; gentlecool; mean time between failures; multi-machine systems; server fan speed; Machine intelligence; Processor scheduling; Scheduling algorithm; Sockets; Temperature dependence; Voice mail;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2010
  • Conference_Location
    Dresden
  • ISSN
    1530-1591
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7054-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DATE.2010.5457191
  • Filename
    5457191